Planning Commission Regular hearing for thursday, september 8, 2016, welcome back commissioners, i trust you enjoyed your recessed id like to remind the members of the audience that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. Please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. And when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president fong commissioner Vice President richards commissioner hillis commissioner johnson and commissioner moore commissioners first is consideration for items proposed for continuance item one1 cashmere street conditional use authorization and is proposed until september and case no. Two at the Market Street an appeal of a preliminary in relationgo negative declaration and next at the townsend street conditional use authorization is proposed. Continuance until november 10, 2016, and item 4 for case underscore two for chair wienerier the dis
Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, supervisors get my name is on the chairman of the local association am proud to stand with local poke merchants and boat District Merchant Association to support stronger form of the retail controls on polk street. Sometimes it takes a series of dramatic events to bring the Community Together to ask for change. In our case, the last year and a half weve been about a with bigbox retailers like target and whole foods were trying to swap away one of only half a dozen subsites and district 3 to build muchneeded housing in the greatest housing crisis in modern memory. The lombardi site will build really 62 units of housing evictions are at alltime high in our neighborhood. Alice, people want to move to our neighborhood. Thats a good thing. We have to build housing first. We also want to protect our local businesses could we need to stand firm and say that district 3 the historic district, the polk street is a storage area and needs to be protec